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1 9 flctroU jfrcc Vvcsb Sports SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1975 InThis Section Sports on Television Page 3 The Inside of Sports Page 6 Outdoors with Opre Page 8 BOWL SCOUTS SEE NO. 8 NOTRE DAME UPSET partans Hand Irish a 103 Shock SECTION Jack Shingleton: Can He Light Fires? BY CHARLIE VINCENT Pro Press Sports Writtr SOUTH BEND, Ind. The Michigan State Spartans, continuing their impressive comeback from that disastrous opening-game loss to Ohio State, bumped off eighth-ranked Notre Dame, 10-3, Saturday before a capacity house of 59,075 fans and scouts from both the Orange and Cotton bowls. They came to see the Fighting Irish but stayed to watch the Spartans, whose defense played a fumbling Notre Dame to a standoff until the MSU offense finally broke the big play that gave the Spartans their first victory here in a decade. Hans Nielsen's 37-yard field goal for MSU in the third period and Dave Reeve's 35yarder for Notre Dame with four minutes left in the game had accounted for all the scoring, until little used Tyrone Wilson burst through a big hole and sprinted 76 yards to the Irish four on the play following Reeve's three-pointer.

Levi Jackson bolted into the end zone on the next play, and then the Spartans confidently asked their defense to contain Notre Dame for the final 3:50. That confidence was not misplaced as Kim Rowekamp snuffed out the Irish's last chance with an interception at MSU's 32, and the Spartans ran the final 96 seconds off the clock. "I feel as badly about losing this game as any in my entire life," Notre Dame coach Dan Devine said. "When you get blown Out of the tub, you look at the film, burn it and start all over again. But with this game, it is hard to decipher what caused us to lose and how to correct it It didn't hinge on one play, I feel." BUT ALL-AMERICAN TACKLE Steve Niehaus stood up and put the blame tor the game-breaking run squarely on his own sjioulders.

"There was a signal called on that play that I just didn't hear," he said. "I was supposed to go inside, but I didn't hear the call and we wound up with nobody there. He just had a huge hole to go through." "Tom Bruggentheis, our right tackle, told us at half time we could run that play inside Spartans' coach Denny Stolz said. That one show of might, though, was the only flash of brilliance the Spartan offense showed all afternoon. Meanwhile, the defense was frustrating Notre Dame with a pair of interceptions and three fumble recoveries.

In all, MSU forced the Irish who had fumbled just seven times in their first three games Into six bobbles. Michigan State lost the ball three times, too. And especially in the early going, that forced the Spartans' defense to repeatedly come up with saving plays. Joe Hunt intercepted a pass in the end zone to snuff out a Notre Dame diive in the opening quarter that had reached the two-yard line. Rowekamp cut down quarterback Joe Montana on the MSU 22, also in the first period, foiling an Irish fourth-down gamble; a field goal attempt by Reeve from the 23 sailed wide; Rich Washington recovered Notre Dame fumbles at the Spartan 23 and at the Irish 46; and Tommy Graves recovered a fumble at the ND 35.

All of that, though, could not get a single point on the scoreboard for either team. NIELSEN, WHO HAD MISSED from 38 yards earlier, finally broke the scoreless tie with just 12 seconds left in the Please turn to Page 4E, Column 7 How Top 20 Fared Here's a rundown of how the Associated Press top 20 college football team fared Saturday: 1 Oklahoma (4-0-0) nipped Colorado, 21-20. 2 Ohio State (4-0-0) ripped UCLA, 41-20. 3 Southern California (4-0-0) defeated Iowa, 27-lt. 4 Nebraska (4-0-0) clobbered Miami, 31-18.

5 Missouri (3-1-0) lost to Michigan, 31-7. 6 Texas blanked Kansas State, 10.0. 7 Texas (4-0-0) annihilated Utah State, 61-7. 8 Notre Dame (3-1-0) was upset by Michigan 10-3. 9 Alabama (3-1-0) rolled over Mississippi, 32-6.

10 Penn State (4-1-0) got by Kentucky, 10-3. 11 West Virginia (4-0-0) defeated So. Methodist, 28-22. 12 Michigan (2-0-2) trounced Missouri, 31-7. 13 UCLA (2-1-1) was crunched by Ohio State, 41-20.

14 Arizona State (3-0-0) vs. Idaho, night. 15 Oklahoma St. (4-0-0) squeaked by Texas Tech, 17-16. 16 Tennessee (2-1-0) did not play.

17 Arizona (2-0-0) vs. Northwestern, night. 18 Baylor (1-1-2 was overcome by South Carolina, 24-13. 19 Colorado (3-1-0) lost to Oklahoma, 21-20. 20 Florida (3-1-0) flattened Louisiana State, 34-6.

SOUTH BEND Before the officials at Michigan State go running off in a dozen directions looking for a new athletic director, they might pause for a moment and take a look at the man who is holding the job on a temporary basis. I mean Jack Shingleton, the guy who was appointed to take over for Burt Smith this past week. Any man who can sit down and write a book about tennis entitled "Increasing Your Net Value" and sell 1,000 copies to accountants and financial people because they thought his subject had something to do with making more dough well, such a man is not to be taken lightly. "It really happened," Shingleton grinned in the press box Saturday before the start of the Notre Dame-MSU football game. "We sold that many to them just on the basis of the cover." Either that's deceit or a great business touch.

I think it's pretty clever, since he didn't force his book on anybody he just baited the hook and they snapped at it. In fact, Shingleton also has written a book about fishing, and get this title: "The Trout, The Whole Trout and Nothing But the Trout." He Won't Hurt the School I would not pass over this man very easily, even though Shingleton said he isn't interested in the job on a permanent basis. You" sense he does not feel qualified even though he doesn't say that right out but this gives you some idea of the man's depth. How many are willing to admit any weaknesses at Shingleton is in a difficult spot. There really isn't much, If anything, he can do in his new job until the university resolves its football problems with the NCAA.

And even then, he may be sent back to his job as the head of the school's Placement Bureau before it begins restructuring its U-M Stuns Fifth-Ranked Missouri 31-7 Ofiv' I wW athletic setup. In other words, Michigan State needed somebody a body, so to speak to fill the roll of A.D., and Jack Shingleton was the choice. I'll bet he won't do anything to embarrass himself or his school no matter how short his tenure may be. He did one thing Saturday which was very impressive. He was asked if he would answer a few questions and he said: "Sure, I'd be glad to." He sat right down and answered everything that was asked and it was all done openly and without hesitation.

Of course, he doesn't have anything to hide or anything to be ashamed of. In Jack Shingleton BY CURT SYLVESTER Fr Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Michigan repaid an oJd debt and reclaimed any disbelievers in the crowd Saturday with an unrestrained 31-7 attack on fifth-ranked Missouri. But perhaps more important, the young and impressionable Wolverines reclaimed their own self-confidence after back-to-back ties with Stanford and Baylor. "Anything that isn't a win is a loss," offered fullback Rob Lytle. "And we're sick of losing." Obviously.

You could see that in Lytle's touchdown runs of one and 19 yards or tailback Gordon Bell's 119 yards of rushing or freshman Rick Leach free-wheeling at quarterback or the Michigan defense denying Missouri any offensive weapons. EVEN THE PRIZE U-M freshman running backs, Harlan Huckleby and Russell Davis, got in their licks at Missouri, which is the only team to beat U-M at home since Bo Schembechler took over in 1969. Huckleby, the speedster out of Detroit's Cass Tech, gained 45 yards in seven tries, including an 11-yard TD run, and Davis dented the Tiger defense for another 17 yards in four carries. And it would have been difficult indeed to find any doubters in the crowd of 104,578 that squeezed into Michigan Stadium on the perfectly sunny autumn afternoon. "These kids have a lot of character," explained Schembechler, still dripping wet after being escorted to the shower by his players in commemoration of his 100th college coaching victory.

"We hope this means we've turned the corner but very, young." The victory was plainly an important one to the especially in the light of their date at Michigan State next Saturday, After the two nerve-wrecking ties and their first dropout from the top 10 rankings; in nearly six years, they had to prove some- -thing. And the win over Missouri was ob-. viously the start. And even if star tailback Tony Galbreath had not been left behind in Columbia cuperate from an ankle injury, it was doubtful that the Tigers would have been a match -for U-M. Not that the Wolverines were perfect; there was a lost fumble, an intercepted pass -and a Missouri touchdown.

But they played over the turnovers for a change and the five-yard TD pass from backup quarterback Pete Woods to tight end Charley Douglass didn't mean a thing with only 1:09 left in the game. At that stage of the game, a touchdown one way or the other didn't meaji a When it counted, during the first three quarters, the U-M defense wouldn't give up a thing to quarterback Steve Pisarkiewicz or Jornel Williams, who took Galbreatih's place at tailback. AND WHILE the defense was doing its thing, the U-M offense was producing its; finest all-round performance of the season. Leach and Bell did the heavy work in a 77-yard game-opening drive, which setup. Lytle's one-yard plunge.

But the Wolverines didn't score again until Bobby Woods kicked i a 40-yard field goal as the half ended, mair ing it 10-0 for Michigan. In between, Leach threw his interception, suffered a badly bruised sternum and his Please turn io Page 4E, Col. 1 fact, he said he doubts if he's even going out to Denver with the other school officials to appear before the NCAA's Infractions Committee on Oct. 13. It has been a long time since anyone at MSU In any capacity has been willing to sit down and talk to any member of the media.

They've all been scared stiff, from President Clifton Wharton on down, and it's been very embarrassing to see men of such high intelligence hiding behind a veil of secrecy. Shingleton sat there and looked straight at his interviewer eye to eye and said: "We're a great school and we've been tarnished by what's -happened in our athletic program. But you've got to remember one thing. We are still in our adolescent stage as far as being a major university. We're still experiencing a lot of growing pains.

"What bothers me more than anything else is that an institution like ours, with such a degree of excellence in higher education, is judged so much on the basis of its athletic department. "I promise you one thing, though. Once we come out of this thing, you are going to see this university grow in all areas education as well as athletics. I have always felt that integrity and excellence go hand in hand and that's just what we are going to have at Michigan State. "I guarantee to you that when they sit down 25 years from now and write about the great universities of this land, Michi UPI Photo Notre Dame's Jim Browner and the Irish took nosedive Saturday gan State will be right up there With the rest of them.

This Is pretty heavy stuff for a guy who doesn't expect to stay on the job very long. But it illustrates the deep feeling he has for his school and why he was chosen as the interim A.D. Shingleton knows where it is at in building a successful athletic program. "It's a business, like all other businesses, and I think in the future you will see all of your successful athletic directors backgrounded in sound business tactics." Shingleton pointed out at the nearly 60,000 people who were filling up Notre Dame Stadium. "Look at this scene," he said.

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Gullett Chills Bucs CINCINNATI (UPI) Don Gullett, his fastball only a blur in the late-afternoon shadows, quieted the normally noisy Pittsburgh Pirates' bats with an eight-hitter and gave them a batting lesson to boot with a run-scoring single and the first homer of his professional career Saturday, leading the Cincinnati Reds to an 8-3 triumph in the first game of the National League playoffs. Gullett, who spent two months on the disabled list with a broken thumb earlier in the season, but still managed a 15-4 record, ended three years of personal frustration in playoff competition with his first victory in eight post-season playoff appearances. It was only his ninth complete game of the year. The 6-foot, 190-pound lefthander had only two difficult innings the second and the ninth. In between those innings, however, the Pirates managed only three base runners.

As troublesome as he was to hit, Gullett was almost as difficult to get out. A .225 hitter during the regular season, Gullett drove in the Reds' first run with a single in the second inning, then got the most rewarding hit of his pro career in the fifth when he drilled a two-run homer off reliever Larry Demery to cap a four-run inning. The homer touched off a display of boyish enthusiasm from Gullett, who leaped in the air as he rounded first. Gullett's homer was only the second hit by. a pitched in Please turn to Page 3E, Column 1 Total Total 33 7 I Oakland 000 000 010- 1 Baslon 2O0 000 SOx- 1 Bando, Washinoton, Garner, Lvnn, North, Burleson.

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MSU Cnn Vwrn from U-M One of the ma jor problems always facing Burt Smith was the inevitable comparison with the University of Michigan's Don Canham. When asked how he felt about Canham's success in making U-M one of the most financially stable universities in the country, Shingleton said: "I've been watching him very closely and I'd like to incorporate some of his ideas at Michigan State." He didn't say which ones, but for an MSU man even to admit that a U-M man has some good ideas is so revolutionary it makes the mind spin. Curiously enough, when MSU hired Burt Smith, the school officials asked Shingleton if he was interested in the job. He Indicated he was lukewarm about the idea and when they sent him an application, he went ahead and filled it nut and sent it back. He said that was the last he heard about it.

And he said it without animosity or even remorse. What can Shingleton do in his time as the A.D.? "Maybe I can start a few brush fires," he smiled. "I've got a clear understanding with Jack Breslin about duties. He is my boss, but he knows I am in charge of running the athletic department. "We've got a $2.7 million budget for our athletic program and somebody's got to keep an eye on what's going on." So that's Jack Shingleton, acting A.D.

at MSU, a man who also wrote "Which an aid to college kids looking for Jobs. Maybe Breslin. Wharton and all the rest ought to read it. BOSTON (AP) Ageless Luis Tiant baffled Oakland with a brilliant three-hitter and the Boston Red Sox took advantage of a record four errors by the A's to easily take a 7-1 victory in Saturday's opening game of the American League playoff series. Tiant, who has been pitching professionally for 16 years, used every weapon in his vast arsenal to keep Oakland off balance.

He mixed speeds the way an artist blends colors, twisting around in his unorthodox style and even occasionally looking at the sky as he wound up. The outcome was a masterpiece. Meanwhile, the experienced A's displayed a terrible case of playoff jitters in the first inning when errors by third baseman Sal Bando, leftfielder Claudell Washington and second baseman Phil Garner put two runs on the scoreboard for Boston. Tiant protected that slim margin until the seventh. Then, the Red Sox helped by an error by centerfielder Billy North that set an AL playoff record for errors by one team added five more runs in a rally climaxed by rookie Fred Lynn's double that scored two runs.

Oakland scored its run in the eighth inning with the help of two Boston errors; between them, the two clubs committed a playoff-record seven errors. BOSTON'S FIRST-INNING flurry started with two out when Carl Yastrzemski lined a single to centerfield. Cleanup hitter Carlton Fisk banged a grounder to third and Please turn to Page 3E, Col. 4 IP ck DB SO 413 5 4 2 1 4 0 1110 0 1-3 2 2 0 0 0 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 3 1 Holtjmen (L.0-1) Todd Lindbiad Bosman Abbott Tiant (vV.1-01 2 40 The Cincy Reds gush over Mr. Wonderful, Don Gullett Story on Page 3 E.

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